1THINK SO/NOT BE SUREto depend on something that is believed to exist or to be true 以…为前提,预先假定SYN assume
The idea of heaven presupposes the existence of God.
天堂的说法首先认定了上帝的存在。
presuppose that
Your argument presupposes that Dickens was a social reformer.
你这个论点的前提是: 狄更斯是一位社会改革者。
2THINK SO/NOT BE SUREto have to happen if something is true 以…为先决条件
Without struggle there can be no progress, and struggle presupposes winners and losers.
没有斗争就没有进步,而有斗争就必有胜负。
Examples from the Corpus
presuppose• Their whole system of beliefpresupposes a benevolentGod.• Such questions are not only perennially interesting; answers to them are presupposed by much of what counts as humanknowledge.• Economicliberalism, which presupposedequalcompetition among individuals, was no more than a piousfiction.• Accountability usually presupposesevaluation, but evaluation does not necessarily imply accountability.• For example, why do we accept what we have always presupposed rather than proved?• It presupposes that either this government has all the authority it claims over its population or it has none.• Your argumentpresupposes that it does not matter who rules - that things will remain as they are whoever is in power.• That rather presupposes that the firm's books are prepared correctly.• Both found their analyses in a non-reflexive mode which presupposes the truth of a Marxist analysis of power.